Anti-Intellectualism Has Its Lighter Moments

We live in a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” and the chairman of a senate environmental panel introduced a snowball as evidence that climate change is a hoax.  Frustrating, right? How much lower can we sink in terms of anti-intellectualism?

One thinks immediately, of course, about the nightly news broadcasts.  But if we think that the US has a lock on news coverage that focuses on meaningless drivel, I urge you to check this out.  I laughed so loud the people outside my office door must think I’m on some sort of drug.